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"... half the codes now, half after you finish" Was pretty funny too, caught me entirely by surprise where that went.

So this came out of beta/early access a few weeks ago, and I gave it a whirl to see what they'd done with a 2 year beta. It's actually pretty solid now, they toned back a lot on the cash whoring - the only cash exclusive stuff now is skins for heroes and towers, although they have some crazy...

Eh? ED2 was absolutely a remake of ED1, I'm not sure how that would count as a rumor ? Also 10 years ? What ?

Yawn. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy ? This was a painful contrast with this week's Rick and Morty.

Dayum, Rick & Morty : putting the dark in dark comedy ;p

I actually just finished the first two books of this recently. My somewhat tongue-in-cheek review : "The story of Awesome man, who is Awesome at everything, his greatest weaknesses are keeping how Awesome he is on the down-low and fending off all the women who want to have sex with him ( but he...

You got to hell ! You go to hell and you die ! Haha ;p

All These Worlds (Bobiverse 3) - Dennis E Taylor The bobs' efforts to save humanity are getting more difficult after effectively starting a war with a technologically superior and unrelentingly hostile alien species. This one felt like a series end - there's still scope for continuation but...

"... fuck you man" Lol ;p

Holy shit that was funny. I was worried the rest of the season wasn't going to live up to ep1, but apparently that was misplaced. Best use of a 'Nooooooo !' 2017. PSA : Watch for the end of the credits

It's not eligible, cutoff is 31/may. Probably up for next year though.

The dude seems kind of cranky, but factually pretty much. There's more mission types beyond where he got to, so the limited variety is technically incorrect, but you need far more of them so it's kind of a wash.

In fairness, the base building part becomes vastly more important as the difficulty increases, particularly for those people who don't cough up real cash. The walls and traps also become proportionally much stronger with the various skill tree upgrades.

What's the point of having a huge wallet if you can't take it out of your pants and slap peasants in the face with it ? ;p

You are in the starter area, and you already bought a minimum of $60 worth of boxes - did you think they were just giving out those llamas to everyone ? ;p All high tier schematics and heroes are loot boxes only. The only way to get loot boxes is with premium currency. The only two ways to...

Yeah, this. It's not "really" gambling because you can't actually win. The monetary value of virtual goods is a bit of a sticky problem for the legal system currently, exacerbated by bitcoin and it's like.

That's an ironic typo right there - it's true, it's not play to win ;p People are generally pointlessly argumentative about 'pay to win' as a term, with some people even a giant flashing button that literally says 'Insert credit card details and win the game ! Comes with free exclusive victory...

It has the greediest to the cash grubbing P2W transaction model ( buy box, it might have something good in it, but probably not, why not buy 10 of them? surely you'll get something good ) and, as far as I can see, all the top gear/heros/schematics/followers are exclusive to pay to win boxes...

I think it's sort of poking fun at the original fate for basically just going for wilful blindness on King Arthur as a chick. Seriously, no-one even notices or mentions it. I'm not sure about the series though, the story and dialogue seem to be complete nonsense, although that may just be the...

I found it a bit eh. I liked it, but found the comedy/serious balance a bit too far to comedy for my liking. Actions had pretty much no consequences, the one person that died was solely for comedic value (that was pretty funny though I admit) Your mileage may vary. Keaton owned his role...

I would just like to offer two hearty middle fingers to the Slaughtergears nerf. RIP, you will be missed.

I'm pretty sure it's the Peter principle at work - Moffat was a fantastic writer, but got promoted beyond his competence when he got showrunner as well.

That's some gross exaggeration right there. It wasn't that bad - it had nice sets, decent action, and the plot wasn't complete nonsense. I agree that Russell Crowe was absolutely terrible though. I thought that they overexplained stuff as well - I prefer a bit of ambiguity in motivations...

Lynch clearly has dark powers, given he got Deborah Ann Woll to get her tits out after she held out as the only clothed woman for 7 years of true blood.

All Systems Red - Martha Wells - Story from the point of view of the self-named 'Murderbot', an AI security unit that has secretly managed to hack control of it's control systems and gain independence. It spends most of it's time watching TV and hoping the humans will leave it alone, a plan...

For my part, I don't think it needs deep analysis, it just isn't funny.

That makes sense, they worked well together in f8 and Statham pretty much stole the show for the action scenes - the plane sequence was head and shoulders over any of the rest of the fights, and the second best was the prison break, also mostly for Statham ;p Movie was fun - the plot is more...

Meh, I thought it was good, if not up to the standard of the first one. My main complaint was it felt overproduced, rather than the quirkiness of the first one - kind of like the new star wars movie - at every point they go with the least risk option, which makes it disappointingly predictable.

What? Of course they are, that's literally the core of how they work.

I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn't great or anything, but the new chick was pretty funny.

Sci-fi humor isn't all that common. Um, Redshirts by Scalzi and Wilful Child by Steven Erikson spring to mind. Can't really think of anything else offhand. Looking at Calibre tags in my library, some people have some very strange ideas about what humor is - 'We Are Legion ( We are Bob )' has...

Pfft, like she didn't know that to start with, she'd be a pretty shitty psychiatrist if she didn't.

I think last episode was a new low in stupidly manufactured drama. Not wearing an engagement ring ? Seriously, that was just utterly weak sauce.

Why would that tilt you ? It's so they are upright when under thrust.

I think it was deliberately confusing, but my take was that Bobbie told her ship they were under attack just as it started going over the orbital mirror. The ship captain opens fire on the mirror to destroy it so he can see what's going on on the ground, and then the UN ships fire on him because...

Wait, is there some meta-humor going on here that went over my head, or did John Oliver just unironically run a piece on interesting news stories not getting any coverage because the media is too busy bashing Trump ?

Quentin is a fucking idiot, nothing new here ;p Margot gets all the best lines. 'Your *actual* kingdom is *actually* at stake' ;p

That's a curious choice, aluriel is waaaaaay harder than krosus.

They mention that due to the tech they can only go back as far as the last person they sent. That means the present time is always happening in a fixed order and not being revised. There's actually reasonably good indications that what the present timeline is getting fucked up by people from...

Fuck that ending. Double salt for being so incredibly shit that there's zero chance of a second season to make it not worthless ;p